“Joseph Middleton is everywhere a sensitive and imaginative accompanist to Amanda Roocroft, whose intimate, emotionally versatile singing is always engaging… Prologue and epilogue, framing this artful recital are both by Benjamin Britten: first a delicately poised performance of the disc’s title song, the Auden setting ‘Tell me the Truth about Love’; and finally, Britten’s plangent folksong setting, ‘Early one Morning’. In between come treats and rarities.” ★★★★
“an imaginative recital of art song…Roocroft is impassioned in outgoing songs such as Bridge’s ecstatic ‘Adoration’, where accompanist Joseph Middleton is really able to let himself go…persuasively shaped and coloured. The choice of songs, though, is its own strong selling point. It would be nice to think that every weekend fling might be as rewarding as this one.”
